Frans Zwartjes
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-05-13 (90 years old)
Deathday
2017-11-18
Place of Birth
Alkmaar, Netherlands
Also known As
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Frans Zwartjes
Biography
Frans Zwartjes (*Alkmaar, 1927) is a film maker, musician, violin maker, artist and sculptor. In the late 1960's he became well known with films showing grotesquely dressed up actors involved in little power-mad sexual games. Hysterics and cruelty are his regular topics. Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important contemporary experimental film maker". Zwartjes made over fifty films. Pentimento (1979), Living (1971) and Ín Extremo (1981) seem to be his best known films. Director Ruud Monster's documentary The Great Wizard portrays Zwartjes as a self-conscious artist who comments on the world in a farcical way. The film was partly shot at...
Acting
1971
Production
1976
as Director
1976
as Production Design
1976
as Director of Photography
1976
as Music
1969
as Director
1971
as Director
1968
as Director
1969
as Director
1970
as Director
1979
as Director
1974
as Director
1968
as Director
1970
as Director
1970
as Director
1973
as Director
1968
as Director
1969
as Director
1974
as Sound Designer
1974
as Producer
1972
as Director
1972
as Music
1982
as Director
1968
as Cinematography
1968
as Director
1984
as Director
1970
as Director
1970
as Director
1970
1970
1970
as Cinematography
1970
as Director
1970
as Director
2015
as Director
2006
as Writer
1971
as Cinematography
1971
as Sound
1981
as Director
1982
as Director of Photography
1979
as Writer
1967
as Director
1992
as Director of Photography
1992
as Director
1968
as Cinematography
1992
as Original Music Composer
1968
as Director
1969
as Original Music Composer
1969
as Director
1969
as Director
1969
as Director
1979
as Producer
1979
as Editor
1979
as Director of Photography
1979
as Sound Designer
1981
as Cinematography
1975
as Cinematography
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